Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait

Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait

Born around 1225 near the small southern Italian town of Aquino,
Thomas Aquinas attended the University of Naples, and while in the
city entered the Dominican Order. He then went north to pursue his
studies under Albert the Great, also a Dominican, in Paris and
Cologne. He was appointed lecturer and then professor at the
University of Paris, but returned to Naples to organise the Dominican
house of studies there. He died in 1274 en route to Rome to take part
in the Second Council of Lyon, having struck his head on a low tree
branch, and was canonised some fifty years later.